Mockingbird hacks are really milking the shit out of this New Knowledge report.
>muh russian bots
>The so-called Yellow Vest protests had spread across France, and we were talking about the role disinformation played in the galvanizing French hashtag for the protests, #giletsjaunes.
>The internet has always been awash with misinformation and hate, but never has it felt so inescapable and overwhelming as it did this year. From Facebook’s role in fanning the flames of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar to the rise of QAnon to the so-called migrant caravan to the influence campaign conducted by the Kremlin’s Internet Research Agency, 2018 was a rough year to be online, regardless of the strength of your media literacy skills.
>It has become increasingly difficult to parse the real from the fake, and even harder to determine the effect of it all. On December 17, cybersecurity firm New Knowledge released a report on the IRA's campaign to sow division and influence American voters on Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms. It's one of the most thorough analyses of the IRA’s misdeeds to take place outside of the companies themselves
https://www.wired.com/story/2018-was-a-rough-year-for-truth-online/